title: Hookworm with hypereosinophilia: atypical presentation of a typical disease.
abstract: We describe a 55-year-old man returning from the Philippines infected with a hookworm, the novel bacterium Laribacter hongkongensis, and a Blastocystis hominis and presenting with both gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms. The high eosinophilia caused by the hookworm infection resulted in both gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms, resembling a hypereosinophilic syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Sebastiaan O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Verboeket
authors.forename: Guido E L
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: van den Berk
authors.forename: Joop E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Arends
authors.forename: Alje P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: van Dam
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peringa
authors.forename: Rogier R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Jansen
mesh_terms: D000723:Ancylostomatoidea / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000818:Animals; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006725:Hookworm Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D017681:Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D010679:Philippines / Q000208:ethnology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014195:Travel